Crime Statistics for Mill Dam, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, 2024

This is our street level crime statistics overview for Mill Dam in August 2024. There were a total of 324 incidents. See where they were on the map below and broken down by categories. The largest category was Shoplifting, followed by Anti Social Behaviour.

Crime CategoryIncidents
Shoplifting99
Anti Social Behaviour77
Violent Crime70
Criminal Damage Arson20
Public Order15
Other Theft15
Other Crime10
Burglary8
Theft From The Person3
Vehicle Crime2
Possession Of Weapons2
Bicycle Theft1
Robbery1
Drugs1
All Crime324

Map of street level crime incidents in August 2024

Police data is divided in Policing Neighbourhoods. We have taken the 'best fit' neighbourhood that includes Mill Dam. This map shows if incidents are evenly distributed over the district or if there are hot spots in certain streets or areas.

Where Police data is not specific to an address for privacy reasons, most roads are represented by 1 to 2 markers or clusters. However, this should be enough to ascertain if the road you live in or are thinking of moving to, is a crime hot spot. The only exception could be where there is a large cluster of a single crime category on a street, as this could but not necessarily be related to multiple incidents at one address.



Crime incidents in neighbouring areas to Mill Dam

We've taken the ten nearest places to Mill Dam and ranked them by the number of crime incidents in each. This should allow you to see if Mill Dam has more crime than other surrounding areas.

LocationCrime Incidents
Chirton (1.39 miles)671
North Shields (1.24 miles)610
Harton (1.75 miles)571
South Shields (0.62 miles)530
Tynemouth (1.86 miles)471
Jarrow (0.88 miles)400
Mill Dam324
Biddick Hall (1.86 miles)311
Tyne Dock (0.62 miles)278
Horsley Hill (1.96 miles)223

8.47%
of Simonside and Rekendyke residents were born outside of the UK, according to the 2021 Census



Where are the most violent places near Mill Dam?

The category of crime that most concerns people is violent crime. We have taken the ten nearest place to Mill Dam and ranked them according to the number of violent incidents in the 'best fit' Policing neighbourhood.

LocationViolent Incidents
Chirton207
Harton164
North Shields161
Tynemouth131
South Shields128
Jarrow126
Biddick Hall119
Tyne Dock80
Mill Dam70
Horsley Hill62

How likely are you to be a victim of crime in Mill Dam?

Every two years the government publishes the Index of Multiple Deprivation. One of those domains is crime, more precisely, how likely you are to be the victim of a what is known as 'personal crime', such as muggings or burglary. The governemnt publish these statitsics down to the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) or in simple geographic terms, a few roads. These statistics are also published on a ward level as an average of the LSOAs in that area. We have taken the average rank and converted it into a more accessble form, a score out of 100. Where the higher the score, the more likely you are in Mill Dam to be a victim of personal crime. Note that the following score has been generated from the 2019 statistics. At the time of writing, these have not been updated by the government during and since the COVID 19 pandemic.

How does crime in Mill Dam compare to surrounding wards?

We have taken the 10 nearest wards to Mill Dam and ranked them using our crime score based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation average rank for the ward.Residents in Mill Dam have the highest likelyhood of being a victim of personal crime in the area. The ward with the lowest likelyhood is Horsley Hill.

#WardScore
1Simonside and Rekendyke89
2Chirton88
3Beacon and Bents88
4Biddick and All Saints79
5Bede76
6Whiteleas72
7West Park72
8Primrose68
9Westoe51
10Harton50
11Horsley Hill48

Which road in Mill Dam has the highest level of crime?

We have used the Index of Multiple Deprivation to find the Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) in Mill Dam with the highest crime score. Accoding to the 2019 statistics, that is in and around this marker.

Last updated: August 2024
Information provided by data.police.uk
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